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Re: Serverless IP Chat [.NET 2005]

I realise that its been a long time since this thread was started. Sorry.

I am quite new to VB.net so apologies if I am appearing rather stupid. I was looking for a serverless messenger to run on a private (no internet access) corporate network that I do not have admin access to. We (a group of us) have created a simple .hta file which uses net send but I am looking into a vb.net solution which I found yours and I am trying it out on my home PC before attempting to run on the works network.

Anyway, I am running it on a Win 7 (64-bit) laptop, VB 2010 express, and when it attempts to save the user info I get the following exception:

Hi Dave... Not to worry about the old thread.. Your question is relevant to this thread....

Firstly.... This code was written by me to learn VB.NET skill's and methods.. (I'd do most of it differently if i had to do it today again)... But it works...

So back to your problem....

Registry access has been LOCKED DOWN in WIN 7 .... It's a pain i'm avoiding looking at trying to solve with in my own applications...
The general workaround that i've been using is open 'REGEDIT' .. open HKEY_CURRENT_USER .. right click on SOFTWARE.. Click Permissions, select [PCName]\[UserName] and make sure that Full control is ticked.... ( i sometimes add a permission for [PCname]\Users with full control to fix it)...

There may be another simple fix... But i've been too busy with other more serious issues to check this one out just yet....